The Haggled Housewife Blog

As I sit this week and try to write a powerful…provocative…post, I think alot to myself as well as out loud and I really wonder….. do I have anything really to share this week…in the Haggled Housewife Life silly shallow saga..or is it just a bunch of blah, blah,blah - that at times it feels like to me.  (It is always a goal of mine not to make my readers snore or soar right through the post.)  I scratch my head and sip my lukewarm coffee with three sweet n lows on this cold crisp morning while I wait for Gary to bring home the three tons of mucky mulch we need to fix and repair the back yard space.  Not to disappoint, miss deadlines and to update…this virtual story….I think the biggest thought or “AHA” I am having is – kind of what I realized last week but I am just kind of learning to confirm… is that when you move…”you” move yourself too!

I don’t know what I expected when I moved to the TLC house, an epiphany of my haggling to come to a halt perhaps.  Surprise, surprise, surprise….I am just haggling with new thingamabobs which I weisinerheimerly refer to as crab apples in the TLC house.  (We have a huge crab-apple tree in the front yard.)  One of them actually hit me on the head and maybe that is how I am having my epiphany…you know my juggling skills ( as well as writing ) (wink,wink) are far from being perfected…I can throw two apples up in the air comfortable…and articulate a tiny compound sentence but when I add the third or fourth crab apple or when it comes to grammatical tenses that when I start to get hit in the head ( and my sentence structure starts to suck).  The crab apples start to fall on the floor and the sentences start to make no sense even to me.

I kind of feel like that about the TLC house.  We have been working soooo hard a trying to make it (comfy, clean, smart, funny, cozy oh..okay just plain live-able(wink, wink).  That I feel like a tell tale cartoon…let’s see if I can use my honesty, humility, humor and right words….Picture one of my homemade slanted signs (out front of the house) held together with duct tape saying…..(Bestest house in Poomont) (then that is crossed out) underneath it it says (Bestest house on East Side of Poomont), (than that’s crossed off) (Bestest house on sophisticated street in Poomont) than that is crossed off)  Finally the sign that is left is BESTEST HOUSE WE CAN HAGGLE WITH IN POOMONT.  That is the sign that has to surely stay and the one I have to learn to feel comfortable with. (You know the …be what you are part….)

I recognized this when I met my new neighbor next door…..”Hello” she said.  “Hey”, I said…”You can finally see the house.”  (Remember I told you the TLC house has not had a haircut in over three years)(GUS terms…no bushes had been trimmed in a least three years)   When you sat down on the front stoop with a little cup of soup…you were enveloped in a big, big bushes…which towered over the house.  “Yes”, she said.  On side note, the mailman politely asked if we had bought the house because he saw me attempting to edge a garden path.  “Nope”, I said…”just renting”.  I said, “Just trying to make it a little easier on the eye…” “Good bye”, STINKY EYES HELLO SWEET EYES….”Good luck”, said the Mailman.  “Thanks”, I said.  Back to the main story……. “The house needs alot of work”, said the neighbor.  “Year after year, people rent the house and just don’t care.” she said.  “Ahhhhh”, I said that is true….”but we are here now and we care…”With the right amount of TLC…the house will be amazing”. ”Come in and see if you want…but we are not finished” Well, of course she wanted….( wouldn’t you?) She peeked around and looked around….”You did alot of work” , she said.  “Yes”, I said.  If it could be painted…Gorgeous Gary painted it ..if it could be covered up and accessorized I did it, with all of our stuff.  We did it for our kids, our self and our sanity and now finally we are almost done.  so it is time for us to go forward..we can’t go back, neither can the house by the way.  The house is  just about  to the point of what we are. 

Now that the summer is almost over..it is back to school, work and football.  It is no doubt that I will start haggling with the same familiar things in my life as well as finally putting trying to put our housing hustling issue aside for awhile. ( all right hopefully alot of while) (Even though I am seriously considering studying for my real estate license now….)  Please remember moving here I promised myself I would finally really start taking care of myself..more time for me…family life and living..not so much worrying and struggling …dare I  even add haggling?!(OH,MY!) 

Till next week’s wild writing (wink, wink)

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